Definition of blast

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Blast (n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast..

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Blastocyst :: Blastocyst (n.) The germinal vesicle.
Tubularida :: Tubularida (n. pl.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae..
Cast Iron :: Cast iron () Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc..
Holoblast :: Holoblast (n.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.
Meroblast :: Meroblast (n.) An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast..
Halones :: Halones (n. pl.) Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds..
Planoblast :: Planoblast (n.) Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.
Fauld :: Fauld (n.) The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
Blasting :: Blasting (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts..
Siderated :: Siderated (a.) Planet-struck; blasted.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
Blastocoele :: Blastocoele (n.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity..
Odontoplast :: Odontoplast (n.) An odontoblast.
Entoblast :: Entoblast (n.) The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.
Blast :: Blast (v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character..
Mesoblast :: Mesoblast (n.) The mesoderm.
Hypoblastic :: Hypoblastic (a.) Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac..
Blasted :: Blasted (a.) Blighted; withered.
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast..
Accrementition :: Accrementition (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds..
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